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    The Truth of Valor
    The Truth of Valor
    The Truth of Valor
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Truth of Valor

    Written by Tanya Huff

    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin

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    About this audiobook

    Former Marine gunnery sergeant Torin Kerr is attempting to build a new life with salvage operator Craig Ryder on his ship, the Promise. Turns out civilian life is a lot rougher than she'd imagined-salvage operators are losing both cargo and lives to pirates. And when they attack the Promise, Craig is taken prisoner and Torin is left for dead.

    When Torin finds out why the pirates needed Craig, she calls in the Marines to get him back-and to stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 7, 2010
    ISBN9781400188390
    The Truth of Valor
    Author

    Tanya Huff

    Tanya Huff lives in rural Ontario with her wife Fiona Patton, five cats, and an increasing number of fish. Her 32 novels and 83 short stories include horror, heroic fantasy, urban fantasy, comedy, and space opera. Her BLOOD series was turned into the 22-episode Blood Ties and writing episode nine allowed her to finally use her degree in Radio & Television Arts. Many of her short stories are available as eCollections. She’s on Twitter at @TanyaHuff and Facebook as Tanya Huff. She has never used her Instagram account and isn’t sure why she has it.

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    • 4/5
      A little slow getting into this one but still enjoying Torin and her kick ass attitude. Glad to see the book ended with a continuing theme to keep the series going.
    • 3/5
      Right so in the last book we learned that plastic aliens are behind everything, and I mean everything. There is no real war in a sense, just a bunch of plastic aliens watching and monitoring. So no wonder that Torin quits her job and becomes a civilian.

      Most of this is a space book or a space station book, and I must confess that I do prefer when she is on land to to say. More things seem to happen then, like a prison planet and the escape from it. Anyway Torin and Craig is a team, salvaging stuff in space. But like she can keep away from trouble, as if. She seeks trouble and enemies like it's her destiny in life, but then she is a soldier.

      Pirates are attaching salvaging operators. And soon they will be in the middle of it. She can take down anything and everything. The hunt for wicked pirates begin.

      And the end, ha, yes, I guess we will see more of...that. I can't spoil it.

      The war is not over and what will she do next? I do wonder how this series will end.
    • 4/5
      Very interesting. Watching Torin outside the structure of the Corps is rather peculiar - her reactions are just slightly off from what those around her expect. Except when they're way off from what's expected... Her paranoia is perfectly reasonable, and apparently justified (arrgh!). I find myself eyeing bits of gray plastic with caution. I wonder what Craig thinks he meant by "we take care of our own" - I agree with Torin, they don't seem willing to actually take any action. Aside from going to look for bodies, afterward. Torin's miraculous survival is impressive, but nicely framed - memories of training to survive exactly this make it less miraculous and more reasonable. For her, at least. Though I do wonder if Big Yellow had any involvement in the business... Meeting Di'Takyan and Krai who are _not_ Marines is also interesting - we get to see a bit more variation within the alien races. Variation in nasty directions, admittedly, but we've seen some supremely stupid, selfish, arrogant, fill-in-the-blank idiots in the previous books and most (not all, but most) have been Human. The two alien races have been a bit one-note - heh, actually, one sex and the other food. Actually, seeing Werst and Ressk working together is interesting - two very different individuals, despite both being Krai and military. Nice ending; now I'm going to read the next book and see what Torin comes up with for her rather open-ended assignment. This is kind of a transition book - she's shedding her military life (not "has shed", but "is shedding" - she's got a lot of changes to make, internally and externally) and finding new footing. Last book was the epitome of her military life; next one is, presumably, the start of her new life. This one is in between. So it could have belonged to either series, but I'm glad it was given to the end of the military one - that worked well for me.
    • 4/5
      Torin just can't catch a break. Craig is captured by pirates so she has to get the band back together to go rescue him. It gets complicated, of course.
    • 3/5
      Spoiler-y if you haven't read any of the Valor series.
      I've never really bought Torin's relationship with Craig, which for me made the entire book something of an annoyance and the plot's premise utterly trying.

      I didn't empathize at all with Torin's rage or anger because I never really saw a justifiable reason for her to like Craig in the first place.
    • 3/5
      One last adventure with Torin Kerr - she's out of the corps, but back into action to save her guy.
    • 5/5
      Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr has mustered out of the Marines and is becoming a salvage operator along with her boyfriend Craig Ryder. They have met both the families and Torin is making big adjustments. When a couple of Craig's fellow salvage operators are discovered spaced with their cargoes missing, Torin is surprised to hear that pirates are making a resurgence. The pirates have stolen an armory and need a salvage operator's codes to get in. The pirates attack Craig and Torin's ship, kidnap Craig and leave Torin for dead. But Craig knows that, if Torin survives, she will be coming for him and leaves him determined to survive himself until she shows up. After trying to get help from Craig's family with no success, she calls in some old friends who are also former Marines to help her rescue him.This story was an exciting adventure. I liked that it was told from multiple viewpoints and that the world includes a variety of different alien species. References to the sentient plastic who had manipulated the various Elder and Younger Races into a war made me want to go back and read earlier books in the series again. I like Torin's character. She is one kick-ass heroine with an iron-clad sense of justice.
    • 4/5
      Excellent military SF adventure series. Suspenseful with excellent female hero. I continue to follow this series. She is calling the sequel series, The peacekeepers. This book was a fast read because I di not want to put it down.
    • 3/5
      I like this series and I don't know if there will ever be more in it so I had held off reading this one. The books can stand on their own but it does help to have read the previous ones in the series. Torin is now a retired space marine and is now making a go of it as a miner with her boyfriend. Pirates attack and take her boyfriend and leave her for dead. Of course that doesn't last and she calls her retired marine friends to help get him back. Good solid story line and a fun read.
    • 3/5
      I understand that this is likely the last Valor book, and I'm not exactly disappointed. This felt sort of odd - the main character isn't actually in the military any more, which was always her defining characteristic, and while it's interesting to see her failing to adapt to civilian life, I don't know that it really advances the overall arc any. It's not a bad book, and if you like the series you'll probably like it, but after being totally blown away by the previous book, I was underwhelmed by this one.
    • 4/5
      The war between the Confederation and the Primacy is winding down. Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr has resigned from the Marines and joined her lover in his independent salvage operation. She is surprised and unpleased to learn that pirates having been attacking salvage operators and stealing their cargoes--and the officials are doing nothing to stop it. When robbery turns to murder and the threat strikes close to home, she sets out to correct the situation.Personal preference: One of the things I most like about military stories (SF or otherwise) is the military itself, from naval armada to infantry squad. This not being a military novel in that sense--since Torin is retired--that aspect is missing. To my taste, the book suffers for it.
    • 4/5
      Torin has left the Marines and is working with Craig as a civilian salvage operator. They've visited her home planet and his home station and are starting to settle into their relationship. Then pirate attacks start and Torin and Craig get separated and have to try and trust each other to work on their own to thwart dangerous plans and be reunited. This felt like a shorter entry in the Confederation series, and though it's still rich in character the events feel a bit quick. I loved seeing Werst, Ressk and Mashona again and Torin is always a delight. There were quite a few laugh out loud moments as I was reading, as usual. :)